Perhaps it will become a controversial feature but personally I think it's needed. There must be an indication that mozilla is preloaded. Particularly if systray icon becomes optional. Currently, we have no splash either at the time preloading or later. So there is an inconsistent behaviour : Mozilla without turbo mode shows a splash screen, while in -turbo mode never does it.

Most people are going be executing "mozilla.exe -turbo" at system startup. I don't want a splash screen then. The great thing about the -turbo option at startup is that it barely increases the system startup time - it just runs quietly in the background. I think having a dinosaur breathing fire might just draw attention to it. I think having a splash screen for the launch of the first Mozilla window is a good idea. It should also be shown if someone closes all Mozilla windows and then opens a new one. In that way, it would appear to work the same way as not having -turbo enabled.

I agree with Alex as I too run mozilla at system startup. The "Splash creen at launch of first window" sounds like a great solution.

Confirming. I don't think the splash screen should appear on startup (ICQ and OmniHTTPd already give me enough splash screens on startup), but it would make sense to show it on creation of the first window. (On the other hand, I currently use the splash screen as an indicator that Mozilla started from scratch...)

I'm intend to say no splash screen is the desired behavior for turbo mode :-)

The real problem isn't weather the specific command (mozilla.exe -turbo) has a splash screen or not. The issue lies in the fact that if -turbo mode is used at startup, there's no splash anywhere during the usage of the product. If splash is intended as a way to inform user that mozilla is not dead (because of it's slow startup time), then it's useless when -turbo is used (except for Mail where startup time is still relatively slow). But I think splash screen has also the purpose of reminding that a non os application has been loaded. Changing the summary to a more generic form. It's not my business to participate in a discussion for non technical aspects of the bug, so that's all I had to say. Sorry for the spam.

This is one of those bugs I want to vote against. No splash screen please!!!

marking as WONTFIX. decision determined in performance meeting 6/21.

Marking Verified